Previous this yr, US labels frame the RIAA requested Discord to close down a well-liked server known as ‘AI Hub’ on copyright grounds.
Studies on the time steered that the server, which had greater than 142,000 individuals, were one of the most puts other folks have been sharing voice clones of well-known musicians, which might then be used to create deepfake tracks.
Now AI Hub has been taken down, in line with TorrentFreak, despite the fact that its information tale defined that it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not the RIAA used to be the direct motive.
A new server has already popped up the use of the similar invitation hyperlink (the smart-links used to join Discord servers).
Its moderator has claimed that “AI Hub used to be banned on account of copyright, it appears any person did the trick of modifying posts and added a number of hyperlinks with copyrighted content material, which left Discord with out a possibility however to DMCA the server”.
This declare has but to be showed. A victory for track rightsholders? A short lived one, in all probability.
As is the way in which of these items, one (or certainly, many) new Discord servers are more likely to emerge from the ashes of AI Hub, so the RIAA and different business our bodies’ takedown groups will nonetheless have a lot of paintings within the coming months.
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